The Nintendo 3DS family is officially discontinued, eShop and online services will continue

guest · Sep 17, 2020

The Nintendo 3DS family is officially discontinued, eShop and online services will continue
The Nintendo 3DS is a portable gaming system that originally released in 2011, to mild fanfare
September 17, 2020
https://www.imore.com/nintendo-3ds-...inued-eshop-and-online-services-will-continue

A legendary family of portable gaming devices is coming to an end, according to a report with GamesIndustry.biz. After over nine years of production, and even longer if previous generations are taken into consideration, the entire Nintendo 3DS family is being discontinued by Nintendo.

With the Nintendo Switch going from strength to strength, improving its impressive line-up of games like some of the best platformers around, it makes sense that Nintendo would want to focus all of their efforts there. However, this will mark the first time since 1989 that Nintendo has only sold a single family of devices, and certainly marks the end of an important era in gaming.
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Players will be able to continue buying games, accessories and more from third-parties, while all of the 3DS's online services will continue to operate normally. Players will also be able to buy games digitally from the eShop, and redownload any previously purchased content, so there is still more fun to be had out of the Nintendo 3DS yet.
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guest · Sep 17, 2020

The end of the 3DS marks an inflection point for portable gaming
What does the future hold for dedicated portable gaming hardware?
September 17, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020...arks-an-inflection-point-for-portable-gaming/

Nintendo seems to have halted production on all variations of the Nintendo 3DS, marking the first time since 2004 that Nintendo is not producing any dual-screen portable systems.
Nintendo's Japanese website now lists all the recent hardware variations in the Nintendo 3DS line (the Nintendo 2DS, New Nintendo 2DS LL, and New Nintendo 3DS LL) as "Out of Production."
A modest success
The 3DS line went on to ship over 75 million units in a span of nearly 10 years. The original DS, by contrast, shipped over 154 million units between 2004 and 2013, while the Switch has already achieved 61 million shipments in just 3.5 years.
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An uncertain portable gaming future
For now, the Switch Lite keeps Nintendo involved in the production of dedicated portable gaming hardware, a space it has dominated in an unbroken line since the 1989 launch of the original Game Boy
Major console makers aside, dedicated portable gaming is now mostly focused on nostalgia: handheld devices like the Evercade and upcoming Analogue Pocket representing the low and high ends of cartridge-based retro players, respectively.

As Nintendo marks the end of the dual-screen gaming era, we hope more experimental hardware-makers will take up that mantle and play around with unique portable form factors that expand handheld gaming beyond the touchscreen on your smartphone.
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